Viewpoint: Religion benefits health

Viewpoint: Religion benefits health.

In November 2011, I finally gave in to my bowels. Frequency and slime were one thing, but bleeding was the game changer. A delay of 6 months cost me a lymph node, allowing my rectum to enjoy a second course of chemotherapy. The offending mass had already been removed and fried and a year later, cancer over and my white count recovering, I was back at work. Just another patient benefiting from s...

Who Benefits from Religion?

Many studies have documented the benefits of religious involvement. Indeed, highly religious people tend to be healthier, live longer, and have higher levels of subjective well-being. While religious involvement offers clear benefits to many, in this paper we explore whether it may also be detrimental to some. Specifically, we examine in detail the relation between religious involvement and sub...

Religion and Mental Health

Religion, health and suffering

sources in print and manuscript command respect. The final two chapters deal with Galvani's publication of his definitive views on animal electricity in 1791 and their reception. Stimulating here is Williams' view that Galvani thought about electricity in anatomical terms (although his model was the Leyden jar) whereas Volta, coming from a different direction, saw it quite otherwise. There are ...

Religion and Mental Health

Religion is as old as mankind. Primitive man had primitive religions and he worshipped the elements of nature like sun, earth, air, cloud, water etc. Advances in civilisation led to institutionalised religions. The basic characteristics of all religions are similar. There is firm belief in a higher, unseen controlling power. Religion appears to be a psychological necessity for mankind. However,...